It is exciting to watch the LHC operations team slowly switch the machine back on step by step, encountering problems, solving them, encountering new ones and still breaking records while getting the machine running again. It is also educational. When the linear collider goes into operation it won’t be at the push of one button […]
Operating and maintaining the ILC in the year 202X
Director’s Corner 24 September 2009 Ewan Paterson Operating and maintaining the ILC in the year 202X Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner by Ewan Paterson, Member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee. Why is it that a group of us within the Global Design Effort are discussing some possible year-long operating and maintenance schedules […]